Does anyone know where I mind find a table to look up alternate forms of a certain given name? For example; if I give it Bob it gives me Robert and if I give it Bill it gives me Will and William. Or if I give it either Dick, Rick or Richard it gives me back the other two. Also, once I have this lookup table and I am trying get Bob in my table A to match with Robert in my table B what would the query look like. Just to start here is kind of what I have been doing so far...
SELECT a.FName a.MName, a.LName, a.Street, a.City, a.State, a.ZIP, a.Phone FROM TableA as a, TableB as b WHERE a.LName = b.LName AND LEFT(a.MName, 1) = b.MInitial AND a.ZIP = b.ZIP ## the following will match names like Chris and Christopher. I need to replace this with something better. ( (b.FName like concat(a.FName, '%') AND a.FName = a.FName) OR (a.FName like concat(b.FName, '%') AND b.FName = b.FName) ) ORDER BY a.LName, a.FName -- Chris W KE5GIX Gift Giving Made Easy Get the gifts you want & give the gifts they want One stop wish list for any gift, from anywhere, for any occasion! http://thewishzone.com -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
